| 公共交通 |
gōng gòng jiāo tōng |
public transport / mass transit |
| 公 |
gōng |
public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal) |
| 公共 |
gōng gòng |
public; common; communal |
| 共 |
gòng |
common / general / to share / together / total / altogether / abbr. for 共产党, Communist party |
| 交 |
jiāo |
to hand over; to deliver; to pay (money); to turn over / to make friends / (of lines) to intersect / variant of 跤 |
| 交通 |
jiāo tōng |
to be connected / traffic / transportation / communications / liaison |
| 通 |
tōng |
to go through / to know well / (suffix) expert / to connect / to communicate / open / to clear / classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc |
| 通 |
tòng |
classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc) |